Collaborative Working Contracts

Collaborative Working
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Collaborative Working skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Collaborative Working over the 6 months to 3 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 129 153 159
Rank change year-on-year +24 +6 +21
Contract jobs citing Collaborative Working 777 962 1,556
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.81% 1.71% 1.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.12% 1.90% 1.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 424 614 1,035
10th Percentile £263 £350 £350
25th Percentile £375 £450 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -5.24% -0.94% +6.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £745 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +12.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 80 29
10th Percentile £15.13 £26.25 -
25th Percentile £24.25 £35.00 £14.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 £51.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +155.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile - £68.75 £45.63
90th Percentile £50.70 £75.00 £71.46
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £42.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year +17.65% +123.68% -15.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Collaborative Working is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,603 50,558 80,022
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.40% 89.70% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,483 35,017 56,266
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,521 1,671 1,882
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.57 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +10.45%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.76%

Collaborative Working
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Collaborative Working as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Collaborative Working in the UK

Collaborative Working
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Collaborative Working.

Daily rate trend for Collaborative Working in the UK

Collaborative Working
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Collaborative Working over the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Collaborative Working in the UK

Collaborative Working
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Collaborative Working.

Hourly rate trend for Collaborative Working in the UK

Collaborative Working
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Collaborative Working over the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Collaborative Working in the UK

Collaborative Working
Top 18 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Collaborative Working within the UK over the 6 months to 3 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +29 671 £500 -9.09% 1,305
UK excluding London +28 414 £475 -5.00% 852
London +35 306 £500 -9.09% 484
Work from Home +13 234 £500 -1.23% 535
South East +13 116 £471 -21.58% 195
East of England +51 80 £363 -27.50% 75
North of England -4 70 £500 - 263
Midlands +2 49 £425 -5.56% 147
Scotland +30 48 £475 - 51
South West -2 40 £581 +5.68% 121
North West -14 36 £473 -11.06% 152
Yorkshire +9 31 £622 +27.59% 73
West Midlands -8 27 £525 +12.66% 83
East Midlands +10 19 £410 +0.92% 64
Wales +22 6 £425 - 16
North East +8 3 £625 +47.06% 41
Isle of Man - 3 - -
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 11

Collaborative Working
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 37 (4.76%) SharePoint
2 26 (3.35%) Confluence
3 12 (1.54%) CMS
4 10 (1.29%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.64%) ArcGIS
6 4 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.51%) Appian
6 4 (0.51%) Luigi
7 2 (0.26%) Anypoint
7 2 (0.26%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.13%) Apache
8 1 (0.13%) Drupal
8 1 (0.13%) EPiServer
8 1 (0.13%) nginx
8 1 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.13%) SAS
8 1 (0.13%) SharePoint 2010
8 1 (0.13%) SharePoint Server
8 1 (0.13%) WildFly
Applications
1 53 (6.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 40 (5.15%) Microsoft Office
3 30 (3.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (1.29%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 8 (1.03%) Photoshop
6 7 (0.90%) Adobe Illustrator
6 7 (0.90%) Microsoft Project
7 5 (0.64%) Sketch
8 4 (0.51%) Adobe Captivate
9 3 (0.39%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.39%) MicroStation
9 3 (0.39%) MS Visio
9 3 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.26%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.26%) CINEMA 4D
10 2 (0.26%) FileZilla
10 2 (0.26%) InVision
10 2 (0.26%) UserZoom
10 2 (0.26%) Windchill
11 1 (0.13%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 15 (1.93%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.16%) SAP HCM
2 9 (1.16%) SAP HR
3 8 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.51%) Distributed Ledger
4 4 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.39%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.39%) SAP MII
6 2 (0.26%) Oracle EBS R12
6 2 (0.26%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.26%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 1 (0.13%) BigMachines
7 1 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.13%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle Financials
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.13%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.13%) SAP EWM
7 1 (0.13%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 99 (12.74%) Azure
2 90 (11.58%) AWS
3 44 (5.66%) Power Platform
4 40 (5.15%) GCP
5 26 (3.35%) Microsoft 365
6 19 (2.45%) Azure DevOps
6 19 (2.45%) GitHub
7 18 (2.32%) OpenShift
8 15 (1.93%) Power Automate
9 14 (1.80%) Serverless
10 12 (1.54%) PowerApps
11 10 (1.29%) Amazon S3
11 10 (1.29%) Figma
11 10 (1.29%) PaaS
11 10 (1.29%) SaaS
11 10 (1.29%) SuccessFactors
12 9 (1.16%) Amazon EC2
12 9 (1.16%) Dynamics 365
12 9 (1.16%) Kong
13 8 (1.03%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 32 (4.12%) Firewall
2 24 (3.09%) VPN
3 20 (2.57%) TCP/IP
4 19 (2.45%) DNS
5 13 (1.67%) HTTP
6 12 (1.54%) Wireless
7 7 (0.90%) Network Security
7 7 (0.90%) VSAN
8 6 (0.77%) Internet
8 6 (0.77%) SD-WAN
8 6 (0.77%) SSL
9 5 (0.64%) VLAN
10 4 (0.51%) DHCP
10 4 (0.51%) FTP
10 4 (0.51%) Remote Desktop
10 4 (0.51%) WAN
11 3 (0.39%) BIG-IP
11 3 (0.39%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
11 3 (0.39%) Reverse Proxy
11 3 (0.39%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (4.76%) Power BI
2 20 (2.57%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (2.45%) Elasticsearch
4 15 (1.93%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (1.54%) Relational Database
6 11 (1.42%) Oracle Reports
7 10 (1.29%) SQL Server
8 9 (1.16%) Metadata
9 7 (0.90%) Tableau
10 6 (0.77%) Amazon Redshift
10 6 (0.77%) Data Lake
10 6 (0.77%) GIS
10 6 (0.77%) Oracle Database
11 5 (0.64%) NoSQL
12 4 (0.51%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (0.51%) RDBMS
13 3 (0.39%) Geospatial Data
13 3 (0.39%) MongoDB
13 3 (0.39%) QGIS
13 3 (0.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 54 (6.95%) JIRA
2 44 (5.66%) Git
3 22 (2.83%) Jenkins
4 19 (2.45%) GitLab
5 15 (1.93%) Selenium
6 11 (1.42%) Travis CI
7 10 (1.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 9 (1.16%) CircleCI
8 9 (1.16%) JMeter
9 8 (1.03%) Visual Studio
10 7 (0.90%) Postman
10 7 (0.90%) Rational DOORS
11 4 (0.51%) Mercurial
11 4 (0.51%) NUnit
12 3 (0.39%) Cypress.io
12 3 (0.39%) Liquibase
12 3 (0.39%) Sonatype Nexus
13 2 (0.26%) Axure RP
13 2 (0.26%) Mocha
13 2 (0.26%) WebDriver
General
1 338 (43.50%) Social Skills
2 127 (16.34%) Analytical Skills
3 115 (14.80%) Finance
4 114 (14.67%) Public Sector
5 55 (7.08%) Aerospace
6 40 (5.15%) Marketing
7 38 (4.89%) Organisational Skills
8 28 (3.60%) Presentation Skills
9 27 (3.47%) Legal
9 27 (3.47%) Telecoms
10 25 (3.22%) Banking
11 23 (2.96%) Influencing Skills
12 21 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
13 18 (2.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 18 (2.32%) Manufacturing
14 13 (1.67%) Law
14 13 (1.67%) Multimedia
15 12 (1.54%) Retail
16 11 (1.42%) Local Government
17 10 (1.29%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 83 (10.68%) Analyst
2 66 (8.49%) Architect
3 65 (8.37%) Developer
3 65 (8.37%) Senior
4 55 (7.08%) Configuration Manager
5 44 (5.66%) Lead
6 38 (4.89%) Consultant
7 29 (3.73%) Designer
7 29 (3.73%) Project Manager
8 27 (3.47%) Data Engineer
8 27 (3.47%) Solutions Architect
9 23 (2.96%) Contracts Manager
10 21 (2.70%) Business Analyst
10 21 (2.70%) DevOps Engineer
11 17 (2.19%) Delivery Manager
12 16 (2.06%) Senior Analyst
12 16 (2.06%) Technical Architect
13 15 (1.93%) Data Analyst
14 11 (1.42%) Cabling Engineer
14 11 (1.42%) Change Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (2.96%) HTML
2 22 (2.83%) .NET
3 20 (2.57%) CSS
4 17 (2.19%) AngularJS
4 17 (2.19%) React
5 15 (1.93%) JSON
5 15 (1.93%) Node.js
5 15 (1.93%) XML
6 13 (1.67%) Kafka
6 13 (1.67%) RESTful
7 12 (1.54%) REST
7 12 (1.54%) Spring
8 11 (1.42%) Elastic Stack
9 10 (1.29%) GraphQL
9 10 (1.29%) Spring Boot
9 10 (1.29%) YAML
10 8 (1.03%) Pandas
11 7 (0.90%) ADO
12 6 (0.77%) .NET Framework
12 6 (0.77%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 34 (4.38%) Management Information System
2 30 (3.86%) Product Ownership
3 22 (2.83%) Cloud Native
4 20 (2.57%) Analytical Mindset
5 13 (1.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 12 (1.54%) Onboarding
6 12 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
7 11 (1.42%) Data Structures
7 11 (1.42%) Fibre Optics
7 11 (1.42%) Virtual Team
8 9 (1.16%) e-Learning
8 9 (1.16%) FMCG
9 8 (1.03%) Data Centre
9 8 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
9 8 (1.03%) Security Posture
9 8 (1.03%) Social Media
10 6 (0.77%) Digital Media
10 6 (0.77%) NHS
11 5 (0.64%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (0.64%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 35 (4.50%) Windows
2 15 (1.93%) Linux
3 13 (1.67%) Unix
4 12 (1.54%) Windows Server
5 10 (1.29%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.90%) Windows 10
7 6 (0.77%) Android
8 3 (0.39%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (23.55%) Problem-Solving
2 182 (23.42%) Agile
3 132 (16.99%) Project Management
4 89 (11.45%) DevOps
5 79 (10.17%) Configuration Management
5 79 (10.17%) Stakeholder Management
6 77 (9.91%) CI/CD
7 67 (8.62%) Coaching
8 58 (7.46%) Change Management
9 56 (7.21%) Continuous Improvement
10 55 (7.08%) Decision-Making
10 55 (7.08%) PLM
11 48 (6.18%) Roadmaps
12 46 (5.92%) Computer Science
12 46 (5.92%) ITIL
12 46 (5.92%) Scrum
13 45 (5.79%) Containerisation
14 43 (5.53%) Risk Management
15 42 (5.41%) Business Intelligence
15 42 (5.41%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 61 (7.85%) SQL
2 55 (7.08%) Python
3 34 (4.38%) JavaScript
4 33 (4.25%) PowerShell
5 20 (2.57%) Java
6 18 (2.32%) C#
7 16 (2.06%) Bash
8 14 (1.80%) TypeScript
9 7 (0.90%) Shell Script
10 6 (0.77%) C++
10 6 (0.77%) PL/SQL
11 5 (0.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 5 (0.64%) PHP
12 4 (0.51%) Bicep
13 3 (0.39%) ActionScript
13 3 (0.39%) Ruby
14 2 (0.26%) ABAP
14 2 (0.26%) BeanShell
14 2 (0.26%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.26%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 109 (14.03%) Security Cleared
2 105 (13.51%) Degree
3 96 (12.36%) SC Cleared
4 36 (4.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (3.35%) Master's Degree
6 14 (1.80%) DV Cleared
7 12 (1.54%) ITIL Certification
8 9 (1.16%) CISSP
9 6 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (0.77%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (0.77%) CISM
9 6 (0.77%) DBS Check
9 6 (0.77%) ISEB
9 6 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (0.64%) PMI Certification
11 4 (0.51%) Azure Certification
11 4 (0.51%) PMP
12 3 (0.39%) CISA
12 3 (0.39%) NVQ Level 4
12 3 (0.39%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (5.41%) QA
2 22 (2.83%) Accessibility
2 22 (2.83%) GDPR
3 21 (2.70%) PMO
4 19 (2.45%) Data Quality
5 9 (1.16%) PCI DSS
6 7 (0.90%) SLA
7 4 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (0.51%) Disclosure Scotland
8 3 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 3 (0.39%) NIST
9 2 (0.26%) GAMP
9 2 (0.26%) GMP
9 2 (0.26%) GxP
9 2 (0.26%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.26%) NCSC
9 2 (0.26%) WCAG
10 1 (0.13%) ISO 31000
System Software
1 39 (5.02%) Docker
2 24 (3.09%) Active Directory
3 18 (2.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.90%) vCloud
4 7 (0.90%) VMware NSX
5 3 (0.39%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.39%) NFS
5 3 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.39%) vSphere
6 1 (0.13%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.13%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 59 (7.59%) Kubernetes
2 27 (3.47%) Terraform
3 22 (2.83%) Ansible
4 21 (2.70%) Prometheus
5 20 (2.57%) Kibana
6 19 (2.45%) Grafana
7 17 (2.19%) Istio
8 15 (1.93%) Progress Chef
8 15 (1.93%) Puppet
9 13 (1.67%) SCCM
10 10 (1.29%) Argo
11 9 (1.16%) Docker Swarm
11 9 (1.16%) logstash
11 9 (1.16%) vCenter Server
12 8 (1.03%) WSUS
13 7 (0.90%) Rancher
14 6 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
15 5 (0.64%) Nessus
16 4 (0.51%) FortiGate
17 3 (0.39%) SCOM
Vendors
1 124 (15.96%) Microsoft
2 39 (5.02%) Oracle
3 31 (3.99%) SAP
4 23 (2.96%) ServiceNow
4 23 (2.96%) VMware
5 18 (2.32%) Salesforce
6 16 (2.06%) Google
7 14 (1.80%) Splunk
8 13 (1.67%) Adobe
9 11 (1.42%) BT
10 7 (0.90%) Apple
11 6 (0.77%) Dell
12 5 (0.64%) ESRI
12 5 (0.64%) Qualys
12 5 (0.64%) SmartStream
13 4 (0.51%) Cisco
13 4 (0.51%) Databricks
13 4 (0.51%) Freshdesk
13 4 (0.51%) HP
13 4 (0.51%) IBM